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SCHEDULE , originally a written See also:

strip or See also:leaf of See also:paper or See also:parchment, a See also:label or See also:ticket, especially when attached to another document, as explaining or adding to its contents, hence any additional detailed statement such as cannot conveniently be embodied in the See also:main statement. The word occurs first (14th See also:century) as cedule, or sedule, representing the Fr. cedule (mod. cedule, cf. Ital. cedola, Ger. Zettel, &c.), which is derived from See also:Late See also:Lat. scedula or schedula, dim. of sceda, a written strip of parchment (late Gr. o-xgrl), probably from scindere, to cleave, cf. scindala, a See also:shingle. The See also:original See also:pronunciation in See also:English was sedule, the See also:modern pronunciation is shedule; See also:American usage has gone back to the original Latin or See also:Greek, and adopts skedule.

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